Meanings of coastwise trade in English

He had the feeling that sailing ships, engaged in coastwise trade, might be bigger.

Chaucer's shipman, almost the sole representative of the sea in mediaeval English literature, plied a coastwise trade.

The coastwise trade was also enormous.

The freight carried in the coastwise trade of the Great Lakes in 1890 aggregated 28,295,959 tons.

The latter concurred in all the changes except that as to the coastwise trade, and sent the bill back to the House.

The capital, Maceio, is the chief commercial city of the state, and its port (Jaragua) has a large foreign and coastwise trade.

Steamship companies engaged in interstate commerce and protected in our coastwise trade should be held to a strict observance of the interstate commerce act.

In our coastwise trade a most encouraging development is in progress, there having been in the last four years an increase of 16 per cent.